Although the Japanese army has already begun to deal with the last defeat of Yoshio Shinozuka (to be precise, this guy noticed and asked people to get out of the car to collect it when they were resisted at the beginning, if they can take care of this when they flee in the wilderness, it will be too big for the nervous karma. By the way, a few bazookas (Note 1) obtained from picking up corpses were imitated, but it would take a little time to mass produce, let alone be formally assembled, so at present, the devil infantry anti-tank mainly relies on hollow charge gun grenades, although with its penetration, it is enough to destroy thin-skinned Japanese tanks, but compared with bazookas, gun grenades are a lot worse in terms of range and accuracy, and the other three types of weapons that can effectively deal with armored vehicles in this era: long-range artillery groups, aircraft and anti-tank guns, With the current state of equipment of the Japanese army, it is also unsatisfactory.

Since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese Army's large-caliber heavy artillery losses have been extremely serious, coupled with Japan's poor industrial base, especially the lack of large-scale forging equipment, so the production rate of heavy artillery is very slow, and most of the production capacity is also occupied by the navy. Although the Japanese Navy in this time and space has freed up a lot of production capacity for large-caliber guns because of the abandonment of the construction of Yamato-class battleships, they have also lost many cruisers and destroyers more than in history, these warships are indispensable even for aircraft carrier formations, so they must be repaired and newly built in any case, plus the air defense problem has attracted the attention of the Japanese base camp in advance, so anti-aircraft guns also need to be produced in large quantities, which will also seriously occupy the production capacity of high-performance artillery and precious high-quality steel resources, Coupled with the fact that the expansion of the Japanese armored forces also requires a large amount of high-quality steel, under the negative impact of this three-pronged approach, how many real large-caliber heavy guns can the Japanese Army produce?

At first, the 240mm heavy howitzer and 150mm cannon in Jihua were replaced by 150mm howitzers, and the latter was quickly replaced with 105mm howitzers with smaller caliber and significantly lower production difficulty. In addition to a few "trump cards", the largest caliber artillery in the basic establishment is only 75 mm, and the proportion of mountain guns with lower production costs and 70 mm caliber Type 92 infantry guns is increasing day by day. And that's what to say. The largest caliber of the so-called "long-range artillery group" is 105mm, and shells of this caliber cannot cause any substantial damage to the tank unless it directly hits the tank, even the thinnest armored Type 95 light tank. And in the form of long-range curling artillery fire, they want to hit the tank directly. The hit rate is simply negligible, and one out of 10,000 shells may not hit directly, in other words. The devil's current so-called "long-range artillery group" can only deal with unprotected infantry, but it is useless in anti-tank warfare

Although due to the limitation of flight range, the planes of both the North China Air Corps and the Soviet Union Air Force had little time left when they came to the north bank of the Huai River, thus seriously affecting the combat efficiency and making it impossible to fully grasp the air supremacy on the north bank of the Huai River. But the devil's plane also doesn't take advantage of anything. Under the premise of air supremacy, each other's air liliang was pinned down by the other side, so it was obvious that the Japanese army did not have enough liliang to launch a large-scale air attack on the armored cavalry division.

And if the Japanese send smaller air formations, then whether they use bombing or machine guns to attack the top, they hit the tanks. The flight altitude must not be too low, otherwise it is simply impossible to hit such a point target as a tank. However, since the day of its formation, the armored cavalry division has specially set up a special branch of "air defense tanks" (in fact, self-propelled air defense systems), and the number of them has now reached more than 30 units, including self-propelled twin-mounted 37mm anti-aircraft guns with the early Type 81 light tank as the chassis, self-propelled twin-mounted 25mm anti-aircraft guns with the captured Japanese Type 95 light tanks as the chassis, and the seven-barreled 13.2mm anti-aircraft machine gun "Phalanx" system using the same chassis. If you want to rely on these self-propelled air defense systems eliminated from warships to completely ignore the threat of enemy aircraft, it is tantamount to a fool's dream, but under the premise that the air liliang of the two sides is basically balanced, a straw is enough to overwhelm the camel and ensure that the Japanese planes will not dare to come and attack easily, so the devil's anti-tank system has lost another level, and it is also the most efficient part of the complete system of anti-tank warfare

As for the devil's anti-tank gun, there is probably only one professional anti-aircraft gun, that is, the Type 94 37mm rapid-fire gun based on the German anti-tank gun of the same caliber as a template, and its own performance is limited by the caliber and is not outstanding, and because the Japanese are unwilling to use the cap-piercing shell with no explosive effect, and stupidly insist on using the armor-piercing blasting projectile, which not only increases the difficulty of production, but also reduces the depth of penetration that is not outstanding by almost one-third (test results at 500 meters), It is okay to deal with the original Japanese Type 95 light tanks and those thin-skinned armored vehicles, but for the Type 91 light tank using a new type of low-alloy armor steel, even if it is only the earliest model, it is still difficult for the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery to penetrate its frontal armor that is obviously only 12 mm thick, and the situation is similar to the Japanese themselves The Type 98 light tank, an improved version of the Type 95 light tank, and the Type 97 medium tank and other medium tanks with thicker armor and larger tonnage do not need to be taken seriously.

In fact, the biggest threat to the tanks of the armored cavalry division is the Type 92 infantry gun, 75mm mountain guns and other multi-purpose light guns that can lower the muzzle to flatten the trajectory for direct artillery shelling, because of their larger caliber and more equipment (in the basic establishment of the Japanese army, the battle defense artillery is only equipped with permanent or ad hoc divisions and regiments of the horse system [independent mixed brigades are more special, so let's leave it at that. And there are still not as many as infantry guns, and those three-unit divisions and regiments will not be equipped with battle defense guns under normal circumstances. As long as they are replaced with armor-piercing or armor-piercing shells, the threat to the tanks of the armored cavalry division cannot be ignored.

Note 1: In fact, the accurate name of the RPG series "bazooka" should be called rocket-propelled grenade, which is not a type of weapon with a narrow sense of bazooka, but after the Chinese translator made a mistake, the Chinese have been accustomed to calling it "bazooka" for decades, and there is no need to correct it here, it can be regarded as a convention. (To be continued.) )

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